Hello gang,

We've tried very hard to convert you all into using the Adobe Groups site. "Get your Adobe ID," we said. "Make sure you RSVP there," we cautioned. "You have to go to our new site in order to survive."

Despite our best efforts to work with the Groups site, we have to admit it's like Willy Wonka's Everlasting Gobstoppers: it's "not quite ready yet." And although you could go ahead and eat the Gobstopper -- and it would taste pretty good -- you might, like Violet Boregarde, start turning purple and become a blueberry.

So we'd like to beg your forgiveness, and ask you to go to our new Meetup.com site and create your account there. We've pointed our domain there: http://www.kcdesigncore.org will get you there immediately.

While our site on Adobe Groups won't go away, we have found that the Meetup site gives us the features we need to communicate effectively with you through email and discussions. RSVPs are simple. You'll be automatically reminded of meetings, even via text message on your cell phone if you like.

In essence, Meetup gives us the missing functionality we need to grow our group and move forward.

So you'll want to keep your Adobe ID in case you win a prize, but the other site is where we'll conduct day-to-day, easily-updated business.

See you there! We're on a six-month paid-up test with Meetup to see how it works. Thanks for bearing with us!

Buck Sommerkamp
www.kcdesigncore.org